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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:1/12/2015 | Contact: Dan Carroll, Director of Media Relations Phone:404 692 1958 Email:404 692 195 URL: 404 692 195 |
LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION SELECTED AS DRAGON CON’S 2015 OFFICIAL CHARITY
New Slate of Superheroes Community Service Projects Lets Dragon Con Fans Lend a Hand
ATLANTA – January 12, 2015 – Dragon Con, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy and sci-fi convention, has selected the Lymphoma Research Foundation – Georgia Market as its official charity for 2015. Dragon Con will match dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, any money raised for this charity at the 2015 convention.
Dragon Con also announced its slate of Superheroes community service projects for Dragon Con members and fans in the Atlanta area. This program is now in its second year.
In 2014, the convention raised over $115,000 for its official charity, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and collected 535 pounds of food. Through the Superheroes program, Dragon Con fans contributed more than 900 hours of community service.
“Selecting the Lymphoma Research Foundation as our official charity this year was a very personal choice,” said Rachel Reeves, convention co-chair. “We are grateful that organizations such as this are working hard to improve treatments and cures for this devastating disease.”
Two long-time members of the Dragon Con family – Eugie Foster, Director of the Daily Dragon, and Mark Brown, Co-Director of Convention Operations – recently died from lymphoma, while a third member is currently battling it.
Lymphoma is a group of blood cancers, most notably non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which accounts for about 90 percent of cases. Other types include Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloma and immunoproliferative diseases. Over half a million people are currently living with lymphoma in the United States – the most common blood cancer in adults and the third most common cancer over all among children.
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DRAGON CON 2014 SETS ATTENDANCE AND FUNDRAISING RECORDS
Official Charity Atlanta Community Food Bank Receives more than $115,000 and over 500 Pounds Food Items;
Record Participation in Blood Drive Supports Critical Need
ATLANTA – October 1, 2014 – More than 62,000 fans, coming from every state in the nation and a few foreign countries, participated in the 28th annual Dragon Con, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy, sci-fi and gaming convention, setting a new attendance record.
The convention raised over $115,000 for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, collected 535 pounds of food which will provide 445 meals for the food bank, and set a new record in its blood drive efforts.
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Please ask questions directly via email (mediarelations@dragoncon.org) or via twitter (@DragonConMedia). We ask that you not use facebook to ask official questions of Dragon Con Media Relations staff or Dan Carroll. Facebook questions can be difficult to track and using email or twitter will provide you with the best tool. Plus, it will be easier to collate and catalog questions for future FAQs.
Urgent questions can use text or a direct phone call to Dan at 404-692-1958.
Here are some ways to get better and quicker answers:
- In email and text messages use your outlet name and your name.
- In email, we are able to respond quickest to emails that have the name and outlet as the subject, along with a word of two describing the issue. An example would be: “Seriously, Dan/Allison J. Swagger Registering additional reporters”
- In text a simple: This is Joe from The Wall Street Journal. Where do we get badges?”
- Emails about registration go to interviews@dragoncon.org; all other inquiries go to mediarelations@dragoncon.org
- Dragon Con is a volunteer activity, including the role of Media Relations Director. Dan and Samm both have full time jobs, but we are committed to responding without 1 business day of your contact.
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This week, Dragon Con Director of Media Relations Dan Carroll stopped by to talk to Marc James on the Morning Show with 9.29 Sports Talk Atlanta. We talk about geeks and nerds, sports fans, jocks, and everything in between involving Dragon Con!
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To our 2014 Reporters and Photojournalists:
On behalf of our attendees, guests, staff, and volunteers, thank you putting Dragon Con on your events Calendar! We are excited about each and everyone one of you coming to Dragon Con this year. These updates will be sent out every Monday from now to August 25!
DRAGON CON IS THIS WEEK
NOTE: You are getting this MASS MAILING because you have been approved for Media Access. If you are getting this and do not have an email stating you are approved, please let me know by sending me an email with your name and outlet in the SUBJECT.
This update covers a number of topics and I will try to be as brief as possible.
- Pick up your badges
- Contact Media the week of Dragon Con
- Parking
- Reporters Parade Corral
- Top Stars At Dragon Con Press Release
- Dragon Con Media Relations Podcast #5: Reporter Strike Back
- Past Updates
- Report Tours (Worth Repeating)
Pick up your badges:
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
265 Peachtree Street NE,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30303
Tel: +1 404 577 1234 Fax: +1 404 588 4137
Once at the Hyatt Regency work your way to the lowest floor to the GREENBRIAR ROOM.
Hours:
Thursday 2-10PM
Friday 9AM- 9PM
Saturday 9PM – 7PM
Sunday 9AM – 5PM
Monday 9AM- 3PM
This is room is also available for you you to write your articles, but we will not have WiFi available.
Contact Media Relations the Week of Dragon Con
The week of Dragon Con is a busy week for all of us. Dragon Con Media Relations will be leaving our office on 8/27 and heading to Dragon Con, where the Greenbriar Registration Room in the Hyatt Regency will open 2PM on Thursday, 8/28.
Emails and phone calls will be addressed when possible during this time.
- The best way to reach Media Relations that week is a SMS message to 404-692-1958. Please include your name, outlet, and your question. Media relations will conducting a number of interviews but will get back to you when it is possible.
- Beginning 10AM on 8/28 you can reach us via the Hyatt Regency Atlanta by calling (404) 577-1234 and asking for The Greenbriar Room.
- Come see us in person during Dragon Con.
For new reporters, cellular service degrades horribly during Dragon Con, we recommend everyone go directly to the Greenbriar room for questions during Dragon Con.
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
8/25/14 |
Contact:Phone:
Email: URL: |
Greg Euston, Director, Public Relations404-775-0285
greg@mcgraweuston.com
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Actors from Star Trek, X-Men, Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogy will be on hand, joined by the stars of Once Upon A Time, Arrow, True Blood, Falling Skies and Warehouse 13.
ATLANTA – August 25, 2013 – With more than 400 actors, authors, artists and other creators scheduled to appear, the stars are shining bright at Dragon Con 2014, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy, sci-fi and gaming convention.
Sir Patrick Stewart, Karl Urban, Ralph Macchio, Cary Elwes, Jeri Ryan, Walter Koenig and John Ratzenberger head an all-star guest list that covers television, movies, literature, comics, gaming and other realms.
James Gunn, writer and director of this summer’s box office hit Guardian of the Galaxy, and Terry Gilliam, writer and director of Brazil, The Fisher King, as well as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, will also be on hand this year.
Organizers expect more than 62,000 people will attend Dragon Con this year, filling downtown Atlanta over the four-day Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September 1, with activities across AmericasMart and five host hotels – Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Hilton Atlanta, Westin Peachtree and Sheraton Atlanta.
“This year, we have made a special effort to attract top actors from some of today’s most interesting television programs, including Once Upon A Time, Arrow, True Blood and Falling Skies,” said convention co-chair Rachel Reeves. “It’s an exciting list and I believe our fans will really enjoy the chance to meet their new favorites.”
Main cast members from several popular broadcast network and cable shows such as ABC’s Once Upon A Time, TNT’s Falling Skies and even HBO’s hit series True Blood are among those who will be on hand. Other shows represented include Fox’s The Following, Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, Syfy’s Being Human, Syfy’s Defiance and the Showcase series Lost Girl.
“We are particularly excited that, for the first time, the main cast of Warehouse 13 – Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, and Alison Scagliotti – will appear together at the same convention. And we have Aaron Ashmore, who appeared in more than half of the episodes,” Reeves said.
Several actors from Joss Whedon creations Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Firefly will be on hand. (more…)
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In preparation for Dragon Con, Dan Carroll–Media Relations Director for Dragon Con, called into WNJC in Phiiadelphia to thank the folk of Philly for Freedom and to invite them down to Atlanta for Dragon Con. Here is the raw un-edited feed!
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During the last year, DragonCon, the writing community, and the science fiction and fantasy communities lost 2 of our own. Aaron Allston and Ann (A.C.) Crispin worked tirelessly to mentor, teach, and protect the new generations of writers, not only at DragonCon, but in each and every day of their lives. Both were constant fixtures at DragonCon-often in bright colors, or aloha shirts, who imparted their wisdom, shared their insights, and greeted their enthusiastic fans with an equal amount of excitement, whether at a Q&A panel or at one of their many workshops. Always genuine and gracious, they both will be missed greatly this year, as we begin to experience DragonCon without our “crazy aunt” and “crazy uncle” popping in to say hello. To honor them, Star Wars at DragonCon, with the help of Michael Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, Timothy Zahn, and Silence in the Library Publishing’s Janine Spendlove and Bryan Young will be holding a panel Sunday, August 31st, at 5:30pm in the Hyatt International North. Please stop by and join us as we celebrate the lives of these wonderful authors who contributed so much, both in and outside of the world of literature. In addition, if you ever had any contact with AC or Aaron, read their books, sat in on their workshops, etc., join us in wearing vibrant, bright colors, and/or Hawaiian/Aloha Shirts on Sunday as we celebrate these members of our family who were taken away from us too soon.
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Recently Dan Carroll, Media Relations Director for Dragon Con talked on the air with BK of 1450 WBHF. Here is the RAW feed of that interviews!
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